Nora K. Chadwick, The age of saints in early Celtic Church. London O.U.P., 1961. (University of Durham: Riddell memorial lectures, 32nd series, 1960).

Kathleen Hughes, 'The church and the world in early Christian Ireland', Irish Historical Studies 13 1962/63 (1963) 99116.

Kathleen Hughes, The Church in Early Irish Society. London: Methuen, 1966.

James F. Kenny, The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: ecclesiastical. An introduction and guide. Shannon I.U.P., 1968. Repr. of 1929 ed., corrections and additions, and preface, by Ludwig Bieler.

Daniel F. Melia, 'Abstract: Irish Saints' Lives as Historical Sources.' In: Glanmor Williams and Robert Owen Jones (eds.) The Celts and the Renaissance: Tradition and Innovation. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Celtic Studies, held at Swansea, 1924 July 1987. Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1990.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Normalization

The editor's divisions of words have been silently changed to bring them into accord with modern practice. All compound personal names are segmented in line with CELT practice.

Quotation

Direct speech is tagged q.

Hyphenation

Soft hyphens are silently removed. When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a page-break or line-break, this break is marked after the completion of the hyphenated word.

Segmentation

div0=the saint's life; div1=the editor's section; page-breaks are marked. Folio numbers of the manuscript are marked. Paragraphs are marked. Passages in verse are marked by poem, stanza and line.

Standard Values

Dates are standardized in the ISO form yyyy-mm-dd.

Interpretation

Personal names, group and place names are tagged.

Canonical References

The n attribute of each text in this corpus carries a unique identifying number for the whole text. The title of the text is held as the first Head element within each text. Div0 is reserved for the volume. Page-numbers of the printed text are tagged pb n="nn".

Profile Description

Created: By one or more unknown authors in Irish monastic scriptoria.
Date range: Middle Irish period.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Middle Irish.

Language: [LA] There is one Latin abbreviation.

Language: [EN] The notes are in English.

Revision History

(2012-02-21)

Beatrix Färber (ed.)

Addition made to bibliographic details.

(2010-11-27)

Beatrix Färber (ed.)

Conversion script run; new wordcount made.

(2008-08-30)

Beatrix Färber (ed.)

Keywords added; file validated.

(2005-08-25)

Julianne Nyhan (ed.)

Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion

(2005-08-04T15:40:53+0100)

Peter Flynn (ed.)

Converted to XML

(2004-04-28)

Benjamin Hazard (ed.)

Additions to bibliography made.

(2004-04-27)

Beatrix Färber (ed.)

Minor additions and changes to header; file parsed.

(2002-04-23)

Ruth Murphy (ed.)

Second proofing of text; integration of addenda and corrigenda;
completion of structural and content markup (place names and group names, poems).